Quiet Offseason

[jim]

You also have all the ancillary noise around Christmas to look forward to; gluttonous shopping sprees for adult relatives, Christmas cards (blech), tree/decorating, and crappy parties you wouldn't normally attend.

Wait a minute! Hold the phone.

Weren't you the one making neat little crafty things last year like wreathes, etc. while listening to Wilson Phillips - "Hey Santa" ???????

Yeah, well, Pinterest was new to me then. Now it sucks. I want to buy all the crap for people as easily as possible. Give me a freakin' link if I'm going to buy your 35 yr. old ass a present, brother-in-law. Didn't you post something about me and mom jeans too? And jim, I don't know how you get off so easy at Christmas. I think we'd be disowned if we floated the idea of no gifts.

I haven't bought a Christmas gift for an adult in 10 years. Birthday either. We just don't do gifts.

[Molly]

You also have all the ancillary noise around Christmas to look forward to; gluttonous shopping sprees for adult relatives, Christmas cards (blech), tree/decorating, and crappy parties you wouldn't normally attend.

Wait a minute! Hold the phone.

Weren't you the one making neat little crafty things last year like wreathes, etc. while listening to Wilson Phillips - "Hey Santa" ???????

Yeah, well, Pinterest was new to me then. Now it sucks. I want to buy all the crap for people as easily as possible. Give me a freakin' link if I'm going to buy your 35 yr. old ass a present, brother-in-law. Didn't you post something about me and mom jeans too? And jim, I don't know how you get off so easy at Christmas. I think we'd be disowned if we floated the idea of no gifts.

I haven't bought a Christmas gift for an adult in 10 years. Birthday either. We just don't do gifts.

Two words; gift cards. We go to my brother & sister-in-law's every year for Christmas. Everyone brings a $20 gift card and we play rob your neighbor. And my brother usually throws in that one item everyone fights over...the $20 scratch off ticket, the $25 casino chip for the gamblers, a $20 bill hidden in a gift card tin. It's a blast.

[jim]

You also have all the ancillary noise around Christmas to look forward to; gluttonous shopping sprees for adult relatives, Christmas cards (blech), tree/decorating, and crappy parties you wouldn't normally attend.

Wait a minute! Hold the phone.

Weren't you the one making neat little crafty things last year like wreathes, etc. while listening to Wilson Phillips - "Hey Santa" ???????

Yeah, well, Pinterest was new to me then. Now it sucks. I want to buy all the crap for people as easily as possible. Give me a freakin' link if I'm going to buy your 35 yr. old ass a present, brother-in-law. Didn't you post something about me and mom jeans too? And jim, I don't know how you get off so easy at Christmas. I think we'd be disowned if we floated the idea of no gifts.

I haven't bought a Christmas gift for an adult in 10 years. Birthday either. We just don't do gifts.

Two words; gift cards. We go to my brother & sister-in-law's every year for Christmas. Everyone brings a $20 gift card and we play rob your neighbor. And my brother usually throws in that one item everyone fights over...the $20 scratch off ticket, the $25 casino chip for the gamblers, a $20 bill hidden in a gift card tin. It's a blast.

Two more words: Buy them yourself.

No that sounds like fun actually. But I have a brother in law that has 30,000 rounds of ammo and he needs more of course, and he has plans to help protect his family (my 'sis) by building a nice bunker. So he's kind of tight on money right now and I hate to have him spend money foolishly on gift cards and such.

[M1IRONMIKE]

I haven't bought a Christmas gift for an adult in 10 years. Birthday either. We just don't do gifts.

So i guess I can quit obsessing over what you are getting me

[jim]

I haven't bought a Christmas gift for an adult in 10 years. Birthday either. We just don't do gifts.

So i guess I can quit obsessing over what you are getting me

How about a Bulls game? Late March Iggy comes to Chicago, I've got tix. Maybe Rose is back. There you go.

[jim]

Very disappointing. We found the tree but when we plugged it in we realized it did not have ornaments. We are going to have to put ornaments on the tree. I thought this was a fully decorated and lit tree, unfortunately it's only a lit tree. Luckily it's only 5 feet tall so 8-10 ornaments should do it, but now we have to find the box that has the ornaments in it.

Damn the bad luck.

[go birds]

This winter is gonna be a total pube.

[Molly]

But I have a brother in law that has 30,000 rounds of ammo and he needs more of course, and he has plans to help protect his family (my 'sis) by building a nice bunker. So he's kind of tight on money right now and I hate to have him spend money foolishly on gift cards and such.

Wait...didn't I see him on the Discovery Channel?

[wart57]

My pre-lit tree is 6 years old, and is no longer pre-lit. I swear, Christmas lights are the Devils way of having fun at Jesus birthday party!

[jim]

My pre-lit tree is 6 years old, and is no longer pre-lit. I swear, Christmas lights are the Devils way of having fun at Jesus birthday party!

If my pre-lit tree ever malfunctions I'll just say [expletive] it. I'm at the stage of life now where I'm willing to plug something into a wall, and that's about it. I've done that Christmas bull [expletive] enough. I've had more trees fall down in the middle of the night than I care to remember, and I've ran over enough Christmas lights in June with the lawn mower to light the tree at Rockefeller Center. No more for me.